The Pardon

Imagine, if you will, a man who has been convicted of a very bad crime. He is unlikely to ever be released from prison. Then, one day he is called to the warden’s office and he is notified that he can go free. A pardon has just been issued by the governor and it will be just as if he never committed the crime.

Can you imagine the man saying, “No thanks. I don’t need it.”

I suppose it might be possible such a thing might happen. Maybe the prisoner thinks he is going to get out on his own. Perhaps he has his lawyer working on something. However, I would suspect that most men, given the chance to go free would jump at the chance. I mean most of us would rather not remain in prison for forty or fifty years. Most people with a head on their shoulders would say it would be a really dumb thing to walk away from a total pardon. Most folks given the offer would say thank you very much and gladly leave the prison life behind them.

Yet, every day, thousands of people are offered a much greater pardon and the vast majority flat turn it down, often without giving it a thought. Even more, the pardon is far better. It not only forgives all past offenses but future ones as well. And yet thousands say, “No thanks. I don’t want it.”

Salvation is a type of pardon offered by Jesus. He paid the price of your offenses to set you and I free. Who is so foolish as to reply “No thanks.” Yet people do it every day. They reject Jesus and His salvation. They make the choice to remain imprisoned, not just for a lifetime, but eternity. He will not force you to take the pardon. He has determined to give everyone the choice. Don’t you think it would be a horrible idea to make the wrong choice? Eternity is a long time. Better be sure you chose right.

A More Betterer Idea

Please excuse the horrid grammar. Had a friend that really went wild when I used language so badly. Just is that sometimes it is needed to draw attention to the facts.

At any rate the better Idea is simple. I hope if you read this you pass it on.

How about instead of less police we have less criminals. If we are successful at getting the criminals off the street, we would not need so many police. Still, it’s a small price to pay for our safety. Let’s face it, they are willing to pay the much greater price so we don’t have to.

I kind of like that idea. Obviously, the dems don’t. If I were to post this on social media, it would never be read, other than by their socialist censors. It would seem they like crime. Police, not so much. You see, police decrease crime, which, as I have said, they like.

So. let’s do it right. Let’s have more police and less crime and, of course less censorship by the dems. We can do that. We should do that. It’s a more betterer idea, even if it is bad grammar.

How Many

The balloon will pop. I have no idea when but it will pop. The dems keep telling lies. Those who support them continue to believe or pretend to believe. I really don’t know which. Either way, the leadership in the democrat party will tell one lie too many and the balloon will pop. Very possibly to late.

My question is how many lies will it take before the truth persists. At what point will the limits be exceeded. When will those in the party finally put their feet down and say enough!

It has amazed me at how many lies they have already gotten away with. Then again, I shouldn’t be so surprised, not with the main stream media helping. Since I gave up cable TV, I have had to settle for main stream media. Guess what. They lie too, in support of the leadership in the party. It would seem that everyone who is anyone is required to take an oath, not to support the nation but the party line, no matter what that lie might be.

Oddly, there are still those in the country, indeed vary many that still believe in the collusion idea. It has been years since that has been totally and objectively debunked. Even the dems don’t try to make us swallow that one anymore. However, it has served its purpose. As long as no one tells the truth about it, many still believe it.

Then, of course there is the letter from the so-called intelligence folks. You know, the ones who are not so intelligent. Because of that lie, there are still those that believe that the laptop was not from Old Joe’s son. If you ask them, it is just another Russian plot.

The lies have taken hold and so very many are reluctant to let go of them.

However, suddenly, like the popping of a balloon, it will become plain that they were lied to. I do wonder if it will be too late to do any good. But even more, I wonder just how many lies they will tell before the truth becomes apparent to one and to all.

They Just Don’t Care

The man gets drunk and starts to go home. On the way, he hits a car. About 6 hours later, he wakes up in a hospital room. He will be okay after a year of so. The two children in the car he hit will live, hardly any injuries. The same can’t be said about the mother and father. One died right away. They other died in the hospital an hour later.

One child, eighteen months, will likely remember very little of her mother. The other child, five will remember the crash for the rest of his life. Both will go into into the system and will likely be adopted into different homes, if they are adopted at all.

The alcoholic who caused the crash, might actually feel really bad about, but not likely. The man is determined to have his liquor and he doesn’t care what it causes or what gets in the way. Before it’s all over, he will be arrested two more times for drunk driving. He might even kill more before it’s over.

The above story, I just made up on the spur of the moment. However, I have seen similarities. In some cases, it is the parents that die. In other cases, it’s the kids. I personally know of one woman who lost two of her three kids in an accident and spent a while in the hospital. Then about a year later, she lost the third child. All were lost to people driving under the influence.

Apparently, they don’t learn and apparently, they don’t care. Even when their driving privileges are revoked, they continue to drive and they continue to drink and they continue to kill. The only conclusion that I can draw is that they just don’t care. Apparently, nothing short of locking them up for a while will stop them from getting into a car and converting it into a weapon.

My guess is to head it off. The first time they are caught, they need to spend serous time in jail, that is besides any other laws they are guilty of breaking. Perhaps a six month stint in a jail will change their might about driving drunk. The second time, make it two years.

When they don’t care, we have to do something to keep them off the road, at least for a while. Apparently, revoking their license is not enough. Maybe, if the penalties are stiff enough, we can keep them from killing someone the first time. After all, as near as I can tell, right now all they get is a warning the first time. They need to get the first warning when they are issued the license and each time it is renewed. They need to know better before ever getting behind the wheel.

Then, maybe, just maybe, there won’t be so many parents without their children and children without their parents. We really ought not excuse crime as a sickness called alcoholism.

It Has Been Suggested

Sorry. Don’t know the man’s name and I should. He is the third in the Republican running for President. Just is that I don’t know how to spell his name and I certainly can’t pronounce it. I guess this disqualifies me to ever become a reporter. Well, I will learn his name, both the spelling and the pronunciation.

Don’t get me wrong. I am still for Trump for president, but I heard the other guy say something I really like. He said that if he were elected president, he would send troops to the border. Now that is an idea I can live with. It should have been done a long time ago. The fact of the matter is that it should be treated as an invasion because an invasion is exactly what it is. They might not be using planes and tanks, but it is just as bad and maybe even more effective. We don’t shoot anyone because, well they aren’t really the enemy are they? They just want a job. Who can fault them for that?

Well, it is time to finish the wall and put some serious soldiers there. We need to arm them and give them authorization to shoot. Then we need to make it well known to one and all that we will no longer permit anyone to cross the border illegally.

No one would need to shoot anyone. The illegal migration would stop immediately.

Then the next step… the deportation. They should be rounded up and deported immediately. If they want to apply for asylum, fine. Let them do it from the south side of the border. It should have been done that way to begin with.

If we had done it right in the first place, there would be no need for the army to do the job. The problem is simple. The dems want more voters and the rinos want more labor. Then too, the criminals want the money they make off the smuggling, slaves, dope and prostitutes. It is why few people running for office will run for control of the border. It is why they like to come up with platitudes like, comprehensive immigration reform.

Comparisons

The dems just love making comparisons. Well, here are a few things to think about. To keep things straight forward, let’s use 2020 for it all.

364 by rifle. Too many to be sure but it is one of the lowest. More people were killed by hand, fist and feet that year.

1476 were killed by knife. My guess is that if we were to outlaw guns, this number would rise very fast, like at least double.

6365 killed by hand gun. I didn’t know that. In light of that, I really wonder why they want to outlaw the AR15. The AR15 is intended for distance. It loses it’s effectiveness in close.

Approximately, 71,000 are killed by drunk drivers. I’m not real great with math but that looks to me like more than all the above weapons combined. Maybe we should do more to keep the drunk drivers off the road. It would certainly save more lives than outlawing all rifles combined.

91,000 were killed by overdose, many of which were opiates. Many of those opiates came from China. Why do we let them do that? Why do we let criminals smuggle them over the border. Why do we let the drug aider in chief remain in office.

Note, every time there is a shooting, there is an uproar. Where is the uproar over the drugs that Old Joe intentionally allows across the border.

By the way, whether you want to admit or not, drunk driving is also drug abuse. So, really about 160 thousand are killed in one way or the other from drug abuse. That does not include the murders that are relative to drug abuse. There is no telling how many that would add to it. I would guess 20 thousand would be a conservative estimate.

Comparisons

Every time I look up, the dems are comparing another conservative to Hitler. I find two problems with that. First, Hitler was a socialist, nowhere near a capitalist. He was one of those who believed everything should be run by the government, though the truth be known, he just wanted the power. His idealism served only the purpose of gaining power. On the other hand, president trump believed in decentralization of power. Gaining power was neither his goal nor his desire. He was actually more powerful before his presidency.

Secondly, no one ever compares anyone to Stalin, a far worse man. I mean, if you really want to make a person sound bad, why not say he is like Stalin instead of Hitler. The only reason I can think of is that Stalin is one of the heroes of the communist movement. I mean, you will never find a true dem disparaging Stalin or Lenin, now will you? Have you ever heard anyone saying that so and so is just as bad as Stalin? Do you ever hear a dem say that he or she is as bad as Lenin? Of course not. That would be disparaging one of their idols.

Which brings the question to mind. What if I started using the phrase that so and so is no better than Lenin. I wonder just how long it would take for someone to jump on my case, one of the dems. No doubt that he will say I’m like Hitler. And by the way, I am not a socialist, as Hitler was.

A Word About Social Media

It is why I will never get on Ticktock or Facebook or anything similar. Perhaps I could be more well known if I did, but those folks have a serious problem. They publish lies without hesitation. The truth they disallow, while calling it a lie. That which aids and abets our enemy is welcome while that which encourages patriotism is verboten. They have permitted the rewriting of history, especially American history.

Well, let’s see what I mean. What about the virus. Much of what they would not permit from good ethical doctors could not be published. That damaging, which the dems wanted, was published and encouraged. Perhaps millions died because of that. It kept at least three effective meds from being used while allowing meds that had no effect. It caused two-year-olds to have to wear masks when they knew they had no effect. It obliterated the restaurant industry, especially in NY, NY and It just almost brought the American economy to an absolute halt. And then, as if that was not enough, they caused the US to go into a debt that we might never crawl out of, at least for another 100 years. Finally, they helped the dems outright steal an election right in front of our eyes. (Don’t tell me different. I saw what I saw. Others did too, but it is inconvenient for them to remember.)

People ask me why I won’t get on a social media. Now, you know why. I would appreciate it very much if you would let others know.

Incidentally, has anyone noticed the big increase in crime these last few years, especially shootings? Most of us don’t like it. The dems love it. It gives them a reason… well it just gives them reasons. That’s what they want.

Decisions, Decisions

I saw something on TV, or was it something I heard on the radio. At the time, I didn’t think a lot about it but the more I think about it the more I realize both the wisdom and importance. The man said that when his children reached 12, he insisted on explaining something to them.

Up to this point, decisions generally have little if any effect on later life. Kids make decisions every day that will quickly be forgotten. Once a person reaches 12, decisions start taking on a more permanent nature.

That was as far as he went. He said no more about it over the air. More and more, I realize the truth in what he said. I wish someone had told me about it, though I was somewhat getting the idea on my own. Even so, as a young man, I did things and said things I wish I hadn’t. I wish I had told my kids, though mostly they turned out good in spite of my shortcomings. There is one thing I would suggest different than the above though. Nowadays, parents need to have the talk with their kids when they are 10, and again at 14, and then at 18.

It is a different world we are in today. What we do and say can follow us even from the preteen years well into adulthood. This is true about what is done and what is perceived to have been done. This is even more true for those that may go into public life. However, it would seem that nowadays, applications for employment have become far more probing.

Just think, if you plan on being a Supreme Court justice someday, that little thing you did at eleven just might make it to the news and you could lose that appointment. If you want to become president, that little fling with that prostitute could cost you the election. To make matters worse, It can cost you the election even if the fling never took place.

The dems are not above making huge money offers to people to give false witness just to destroy their appointment. So a person, when he makes decisions much consider, not only what he does, but he must also be able to defend himself should someone suggest he did do something he didn’t.

It’s not just the dems that like the idea. Satan just loves it when a famous upstanding preacher is accused of something horrible, especially when he’s not guilty. Indeed, he is quick to originate the thought of such false witness. Moreover, he is especially happy should a good pastor stumble. For them, all it takes is once.

And so it is, as we go through life, we must be very careful. When we make decisions, we need not only need to think about whether it good or bad, but also if it might look bad. In essence, we must go through life realizing that at any time, we might be attacked by Satan, himself, of any one of his thousands of willing minions who call themselves democrats, or in some cases, the church gossips.

As a point of fact, after years of the attacks waged on trump, before, during and after he held office, no one proved he did one thing wrong. However, they did manage to disparage him, based on his former life style. I guarantee, none of this would have come about had Trump went along to get along with the dems. It is how the dems maintain control, the threat of attack can have a big affect. In fact, Trump likely would still be in office, no charges of any type would have been made if he only made the bad decisions.

One more thing about decisions. If you do make the right ones, be ready to face those ready to attack you. Be ready to face the accusations. They will most certainly follow. The dems don’t like it when someone gets in the way of their plans. That’s also true of Satan.

Daily Writing Prompt

Daily writing prompt
If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?

This one’s easy. I’d love to spend a couple of weeks in Israel. Maybe even more. I mean, it’s where Christianity began. To be sure, even before the birth of Christ. It is where God established his chosen people. It is where David was born and became king of Israel.

It is, of course, the birth place of Jesus. However, there was a lot of history there. I’m not one that would want to worship the place. However, I do believe it would enhance my understanding of the Bible to see the locations and know where they are in relation to other places.

I am realistic, though. On Social Security, I don’t think that will happen. I will have to settle for maps and descriptions. Well, then again, I might go… if my books start selling by the millions.

Don’t laugh too hard. It is more probable than me being able to go to Israel without selling the books. I don’t think anyone is going to purchase the tickets for me.